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  • DRTV-Blocking V-Chip Zapped

    THE DRTV and advertising industries applauded the Consumer Electronics Manufacturers Association’s (CEMA’s) decision to drop plans to endorse V-chips

  • No Two Alike

    PRINT TECHNOLOGY has allowed direct marketers to edge closer to the ideal of one-to-one marketing. Leading the charge is on-demand printing, which enables

  • Customers for Life: Applying Relationship Marketing

    THIS IS THE FINAL PART of an excerpt on relationship marketing from the upcoming third edition of David Shepard Associates’ “The New Direct Marketing”

  • R.I.P. = RIP-Off: Everybody Is Cashing in on Diana

    I WONDER WHAT so many of the collectibles marketers would have done if Princess Diana hadn’t been killed in that car crash.Boy, was Shakespeare wrong

  • Measuring the Loyalty Effect

    ONE OF THE best books I’ve ever read on the subject of customer retention is “The Loyalty Effect” by Frederick F. Reichheld (Harvard Business School Press).Many

  • Gluttony Could Spoil Postal Feast

    YOU HAVE TO pity the U.S. Postal Service these days. Every time it turns around, there seems to be someone who wants to grab his share of the marbles.

  • Cable TV Viewers

    SINCE ITS June 1948 invention in Mahanoy City, PA, cable TV (then called community antenna television) has made it into 58.5% of all U.S. households,

  • Homework Assignment

    IT’S FINE AND good that the market for selling office supplies to small home offices and businesses is growing by leaps and bounds. But how can direct

  • Sessions

    Wednesday, October 7 Motivating a Company of One Patrick McCarthy, former Group Vice President, Corporate/Customer Relations at Ocean Spray, Inc.Coffee